10 h. ago Keir Starmer insists UK hasn't forgotten about British man locked up in India for eight years

Keir Starmer's comments came as Jagtar Singh Johal's brother urged the PM to say 'enough is enough' ahead of crucial talks with Indian PM Narendra Modi in Mumbai

Politics

36 h. ago Stop asking me about Nigel Farage! Kemi Badenoch clashes with interviewer as she says Reform 'is not a party of the right' amid poll woe

Conservative leader Mrs Badenoch said she was 'not interested' in talking about her Reform counterpart and wanted to discuss THE Tories, in a blunt response to Sky News .

Politics

44 h. ago Jagtar Singh Johal's family urge Keir Starmer to call for detained Scot's release in India

The brother of Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, said in a message to the Prime Minister: "Keir Starmer should be saying enough is enough, and bringing Jagtar back home."

Politics

2 d. ago Don’t despair, Tories: look upon Reform and see your rightful and fitting legacy | Nesrine Malik

If Kemi Badenoch wonders why her party conference looks and feels like a sideshow, perhaps she should reflect on the Conservatives’ 14 years in powerI believe it is good practice as a columnist to keep track of when you have been wrong, and the thing I have got most emphatically wrong over the past few years is the Conservative party’s prospects. I was convinced that the party that still won elections despite the chaos and instability of Brexit, not to mention the calamities of austerity, could get away with anything. I even believed that if it lost power, as it did last year, the risk of a Tory restoration was still very high.What I did not foresee was the most successful political party in the democratic world, by some measures, coming so close to extinction this quickly. As the Tory party conference gets under way in Manchester, with rumours abounding over the weekend about diminished attendance, the polling increasingly suggests that Britain’s next general election will be a con...

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3 d. ago Kevin Maguire: 'Kemi Badenoch's Nigel Farage tribute act will crash Tory party'

Kevin Maguire argues that the Conservative Party veering further to the right, and into Reform UK territory, is an act of blind panic that could cost the Conversative Party even more votes

Events

5 d. ago Organisers defy pressure to call off Palestine Action rally as Starmer urges protesters to ‘respect the grief of British Jews’

Around 1,500 people are expected to defy Palestine Action’s terror ban in a rally on Saturday despite pleas to call it off

Events

6 d. ago Business Secretary Peter Kyle under fire after saying opponents to workers' rights are 'from certain backgrounds'

Business Secretary Peter Kyle has come under fire after he claimed opponents to workers' rights are from 'certain educational backgrounds'.

Economics

6 d. ago Keir Starmer: 'No golden ticket' to UK as automatic settlement and family reunion rights for asylum seekers to end

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would help ‘address the pull factors driving dangerous and illegal small boats’ crossing the Channel from France

Events

6 d. ago Keir Starmer: 'No golden ticket' to settling in UK as automatic settlement and family reunion rights for asylum seekers to end

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would help ‘address the pull factors driving dangerous and illegal small boats’ crossing the Channel from France

Events

7 d. ago Automatic settlement and family reunion rights for asylum seekers to end in landmark immigration reforms

Sir Keir Starmer said the move would help ‘address the pull factors driving dangerous and illegal small boats’ crossing the Channel from France

Events

7 d. ago Arbitrary detention victims urge Starmer to press Modi on jailed British Sikh

Activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in Indian prison for nearly eight years without full trial The sisters of the British-Egyptian human rights campaigner Alaa Abd el-Fattah have intervened for the first time since his release from prison in Egypt to call on Keir Starmer to push Narendra Modi to free a British Sikh activist when he meets the Indian prime minister next week.Jagtar Singh Johal, from Dumbarton, has been held in an Indian jail for nearly eight years without facing full trial in what his supporters say is an arbitrary and egregious denial of justice by a British ally. Continue reading...

Events

7 d. ago Keir Starmer: We need to look again at human rights laws in face of mass migration

The Prime Minister says says he won’t ‘tear down’ international laws but says a rethink is needed on how they are applied

Politics

7 d. ago Keir Starmer says UK will 'look again' at human rights laws to tackle mass migration

The Prime Minister says says he won’t ‘tear down’ international laws but says a rethink is needed on how they are applied

Politics

8 d. ago Starmer urges Labour to launch ‘patriotic’ fight against Reform

Prime minister calls Nigel Farage a ‘snake oil salesman’ in speech aimed at party’s working-class base

Politics

8 d. ago Hamas studying Donald Trump's plan to govern Gaza with Tony Blair

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer urges Hamas and Israel to ‘finalise this agreement and bring it into reality’

Politics

1 week ago Starmer decries Reform’s ‘racist’ plans as ministers escalate attacks on Farage

PM says immigration proposals could tear country apart as Labour delegates gather for first day of party conferenceKeir Starmer has decried Reform UK’s “racist” plans to revoke the rights of thousands of people to live in Britain, as a number of cabinet ministers escalated attacks on Nigel Farage on the first day of the Labour party conference.The prime minister said Farage’s plans to revoke indefinite leave to remain for families who may have spent years working in Britain could “tear this country apart”, though he said he understood that many people tempted to vote for Reform were frustrated at the slow pace of change. Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Stop letting Reform set agenda, Anas Sarwar tells Keir Starmer

The Scottish Labour leader said that the Prime Minister was “allowing our opponents to set the political weather too often.”

Events

1 week ago Anas Sarwar urges Keir Starmer to be more "confident" and "positive" as he sets out case to replace SNP

In his Labour conference speech in Liverpool, the Scottish Labour leader urged the Labour Cabinet to start selling the policies he says have made a difference to people's lives.

Events

1 week ago Starmer urges Labour to unite for ‘fight of our lives’ ahead of conference

UK prime minister calls key Reform policy ‘racist’ as he focuses fire on Nigel Farage’s party

Politics

1 week ago Labour Party Conference LIVE: Starmer ready to take fight to Farage in Liverpool

Speaking ahead of the conference, the Keir Starmer warned the Labour party that history will not forgive his government if it fails to defeat Reform UK and the populist right

Society